Hello guys,
throwaway acc as colleagues are on reddit as well lmao
So I've been with this company for ~two years now as a network engineer.
Recently they've discovered they I have a certain set of skills and they were very eager to make use of of them. This is outside of my job requirement and description as it has to do with electronics.
By using my skills they can save up to 900usd per device ( they have like 500 + of this model) and asked me to provide them with some prototypes. Obviously I agreed and showed them what I can do and they are super happy with it and wanted to move along with this so called project.
Now the time has come for me to tell them that this is not going to be free and basically they will have in house support at any give time. I proposed a fairly decent price for my time and skill which is 150usd per device.
After two weeks they told me that they cannot provide payment for this “skill set” and would like me to train another colleague (not in my department) and teach him “my skills” so he can do this for free.
Now, they cant fire me and wont fire me as this has nothing to do with my main job but I don't like “teaching” somebody plus its not something you can easily teach. I have years of experience with this and is a fairly hazardous job to teach to someone with 0 knowledge.
Mostly, I feel undermined and don't want to teach anything to anyone!!!
What would you do in my position???
sorry for formatting and poor choice of words